Joshua Reynolds Quotes

Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Joshua Reynolds

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• Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Game

• I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Society
  • Design

• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reality

• Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Political
  • Service

• I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taken

• The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • America

• When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Music
  • She

• Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Just
  • Hitting
  • Slump

• People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People

• Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Money

• Memories so treacherous...

  

  Alan Moore
  • Memories

• The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Focus
  • Quality

• Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

  

  James Bryce

• Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

  

  Plautus
  • Words
  • Sweet
  • Wine

• I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children, and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • People
  • Children
  • Kids

• We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Something
  • Consciousness
  • Eventually

• No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.

  

  Dylan Thomas
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Today

• I have to say that one person I learned from the most as an actor in my life is Emmy Rossum. She is so insanely talented in the sense that when watching her work, it just turns into watching her speak - it's no longer acting; that's how good she is! She just becomes the person.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Heroes

• Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Work
  • Language
  • Conviction